Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): Simone Beck • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Regional & Cultural - FrenchView recipes from Food and Friends.The coauthor of Mastering the Art of French Cooking shares an...

• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary"To read On the Road but not Visions of Cody is to take a nice sightseeing tour but to forgo the spectacular rapids of ...

• Author(s): Albert French • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryAlbert French lights up the monstrous face of American racism in this harrowing tale of ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner, who is co...

• Author(s): Blanche Wiesen Cook • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: PoliticalFrom the Back CoverTHE BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA'S MOST COMPELLING, CHARISMATIC, AND VISIONARY FIRST LADYFeminists, ...

• Author(s): Michael Bilton • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam WarUncovering the secrets behind the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, this is "a brutal, cautionary tale that serves...

• Author(s): Olga Silverstein • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent"Challenging and readable...will help mothers understand the implications of pushing ...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American - GeneralBefore there was Viva Zapata!, the acclaimed film for which John Steinbeck received Academy Award nominatio...

• Author(s): Emilie Carles • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Europe - FranceFirst published in France in 1977, this autobiography vivifies the captivating Carles from her peasant origins ...

• Author(s): Roddy Doyle • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, the follow up to his acclaimed debut novel The Commitment...

• Author(s): Robert Conquest • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Russia - GeneralOf all the despots of our time, Joseph Stalin lasted the longest and wielded the greatest power, and his secrets have ...

• Author(s): Beverly Donofrio • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: WomenDenied college, Beverly Donofrio lost interest in everything but riding around town in cars, drinking and smoking, and...

• Author(s): Lawrence Durrell • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryThe dazzling second volume of The Alexandria Quartet--an enthralling and deeply disturbing work of gorgeous surface...

• Author(s): Josephine Humphreys • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryIn the aftermath of the storm of the century, Rob Wyatt, a thirty-two-year-old Charleston bachelor, finds himsel...

• Author(s): Jessica Hagedorn • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary"The Gangster of Love is elegant and smart, deftly capturing the pain of leaving a country behind and the struggle ...

• Author(s): Lawrence Durrell • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: ClassicsThe magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the postwar era. Few bo...

• Author(s): Various • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Monologues & ScenesA diverse collection of monologues featuring the voices of women through the ages Drawn from poetry, fiction, diaries,...

• Author(s): Marion Meade • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Europe - Medieval"Marion Meade has told the story of Eleanor, wild, devious, from a thoroughly historical but different point o...

• Author(s): T. C. Boyle • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryIn this "wildly funny" (People) novel, an eccentric cast of characters navigates a world obsessed with health and longev...

• Author(s): Wallace Stegner • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryJoe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner's National Book Award-winning novel, The Spectator Bird, returns ...

• Author(s): Lawrence Durrell • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryThe intrigues of Justine and Balthazar multiply and deepen in the third volume of the Alexandria Quartet, giving us...

• Author(s): Joe Keenan • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryThe witty duo from Blue Heaven invade the entourage of a tasteless real estate/media magnate, attempt to turn his talentless wife i...

• Author(s): Carl Djerassi • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the Back CoverWhen Professor Isidore Cantor reveals his latest breakthrough in cancer research, the scientific co...

• Author(s): Michael Pye • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Historical - GeneralSet during the terrible winter of 1642, in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, this haunting and evocative novel, based...

• Author(s): Norrie Epstein • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Shakespeare"Brings the Bard to the masses, makes his plays accessible, and, well, provides fun for the reader."--The New York...

• Author(s): William Kennedy • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryRiding on the melody of its language and the power of its story, Very Old Bones is a climatic work in the Albany Cyc...

• Author(s): Garrison Keillor • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Literary"Garrison Keillor made it possible, after twenty years of black humor...to be both funny and nice, hip and winsome, scathing ...

• Author(s): F. C. Copleston • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryAquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Isla...

• Author(s): Garrison Keillor • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralIn the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers more about some of the people f...

• Author(s): Garrison Keillor • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: General"Keillor's best stuff is clean (in the sense that lines are clean), down to earth, exquisitely good-hearted, highly ...

• Author(s): Don Delillo • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary"DeLillo's swift, ironic, and witty cross-country American nightmare doesn't have a dull or an unoriginal line."--Rollin...

• Author(s): Bruce Chatwin • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryAn elegant novel set in Prague about the possibility of freedom in an unfree state, from the acclaimed author of The S...

• Author(s): Fred Silver • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Instruction & Study - VoiceThe "Audition Doctor" of Backstage shares the secrets of successful auditioning for the musical t...

• Author(s): Garrison Keillor • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralIn the spring of 1926, the Soderbjerg brothers, Ray and Roy, plunge into radio and launch station WLT (Wi...

• Author(s): Paul Auster • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryFrom New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster, a dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel "reminiscent in many ways of Orw...

• Author(s): Ruth Rosen • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Women's StudiesThe Newly Revised and Updated Edition In this enthralling narrative-the first of its kind-historian and journalis...

• Author(s): Richard Rodriguez • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - Hispanic & Latino StuA Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rodriguez's acclaimed first ...

• Author(s): Blanche Wiesen Cook • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: WomenThe first volume in the life of America's greatest First Lady, "a woman who changed the lives of millions" (Washing...

• Author(s): William S. Burroughs • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: PsychologicalMy Education is William S. Burroughs's final collection, first published two years before his death in 199...

• Author(s): William S. Burroughs • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the legendary author of Naked Lunch, the conclusion of his trilogy that includes Cities of the Red Night a...

• Author(s): Various • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: WeddingsThis rich collection of writings on the nature of love and commitment has long delighted brides and grooms of every denomina...

• Author(s): Jim Carroll • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary FiguresThe sensational sequel to the bestselling memoir The Basketball Diaries During the early 1970s, Jim Carroll was...

• Author(s): Ferrol Sams • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryThe bittersweet and very funny story of a young man's journey to adulthood that the Nashville Banner called "Americana at its best...

• Author(s): Martin E. Marty • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Comparative ReligionPilgrims in Their Own Land is Martin E. Marty's vivid chronological account of the people and events tha...

• Author(s): Josephine Humphreys • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryAlice Reese knows that the cheerful sounds of her family eating breakfast mask a ten--year marriage falling apart. As Alic...

• Author(s): T. C. Boyle • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)Mythic and realist, farcical and tragic, these fifteen "fables of contemporary life [are] so funny...

• Author(s): William Kennedy • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed offers an eloquent history of his colorful hometown in this ...

• Author(s): Christopher J. Koch • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryAn intelligent, compelling tale of political turmoil in mid-twentieth-century Indonesia. "Well conceived and beautifully e...

• Author(s): William Kennedy • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - GeneralThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed explores an era of American innocene and corruption in the...

• Author(s): William Kennedy • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - GeneralThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed explores the seedy underbelly of a Depression-era town in ...

• Author(s): Maureen Howard • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryMary Agnes Keely is finally leaving home, ditching her Irish Catholic upbringing, her widowed mother, and the emptiness of smal...

• Author(s): Jonathan D. Spence • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Asia - China"A milestone in Western studies of China." (John K. Fairbank) In this masterful, highly original approach to ...

• Author(s): John Heinerman • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Herbal MedicationsFrom the Back CoverIn the tradition of his other bestselling health guides, Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Hea...

• Author(s): John Heinerman • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Diet & Nutrition - DietsThis book is your total guide to using the incredible healing power of fruits and vegetables to r...

• Author(s): George Fuller • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Management - GeneralStarting a new job always brings excitement, anticipation, and perhaps even a bit of apprehension. One thing is for ...

• Author(s): Lauri M. Aesoph • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Diet & Nutrition - DietsThis completely revised and updated version of the perennial bestseller offers you a detailed, e...

• Author(s): Mary Albright • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Management - GeneralFrom the Back CoverNow there's a comprehensive, instant-answer guide to avoiding over 100 of the most common mistake...

• Author(s): Frances Sheridan Goulart • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Diet & Nutrition - DietsFrom apples (sunburn relief) and avocados (cardiovascular health) to tomatoes (fighting...

• Author(s): Mary Shelley • Publisher: Harper Perennial • Publisher Imprint: Harper Perennial • BISAC: GothicThe chilling and tragic tale of Victor Frankenstein and the tortured creature he brings to life, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, remains on...

• Author(s): Tod Lindberg • Publisher: HarperOne • Publisher Imprint: HarperOne • BISAC: Biblical Studies - New Testament - Jesus, the Gospels & ActsFrom the Back CoverSince the beginning of the Christian era, people have used the words and i...

• Author(s): Larry Witham • Publisher: HarperOne • Publisher Imprint: HarperOne • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryFrom the Back CoverThe Puritan founder John Winthrop preached about ?a city upon a hill, ? Abraham Lincoln's two greatest speeches have...